Gunmen Free Up To 50 Inmates in Kogi Prison

AFP reports that gunmen armed with dynamite freed at least 50 inmates in a raid on a prison in central Nigeria’s Kogi state, the same facility attacked by Boko Haram Islamists in 2012, police said Monday.

“They blew up the thing with dynamite,” national police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu told AFP of the attack which took place late Sunday. “Up to 50 inmates escaped,” he added.